All of the best collaborations I have been a part of have started off with a lot of questions. Not “how do we get it done” questions, but rather questions that yearn for something more, questions that require you to truly envision something that has never existed before and then …
Idea one: The purpose of school is not to churn out a finished product. Innovation doesn’t come from a place of completion. Idea two: If we mean 99 percent of the places that we call school, I would say there is no purpose. The purpose should be to be THE …
I am on my way to educon 2.1 right now, looking out into the night (don’t worry, I am using my phone in airplane mode). For some reason there are no clouds out there tonight, and all I can see are the bright lights of cities, clustered together and beautiful. …
I am on my way to educon 2.1 right now, looking out into the night (don’t worry, I am using my phone in airplane mode). For some reason there are no clouds out there tonight, and all I can see are the bright lights of cities, clustered together and beautiful. …
Here is the second installment of the Douglas County School District’s conversations around learning and technology, which is cross-posted here. So, we focused our time today on discussing how to overcome typical stumbling blocks in teachers using technology to reach learning in the classroom. You can see the show notes …
Image by incurable_hippie via Flickr I wrote the draft of this yesterday, so I’m pretty sure it still counts for my writing a blog post every day this year goal. I realized something quite major for me today. I really hate picking up the phone. In fact, I have become …
Image via Wikipedia When I think about all of the ways in which students are measured and monitored, it strikes me that very little of the measuring is being done by the students themselves. Now, I know that others have written on this topic more than I have, but as …
Image via Wikipedia I have been thinking a lot about this concept in preparation for The On Button: Instant and Always-On Collaboration, but I don’t know that I ever thought about it in terms of money or value lost… until now. I believe in eliminating logins because you are walling …
Image via Wikipedia I hadn’t planned on blogging about this again this soon, but this post from Graham Wegner got me thinking about it again. In this post, he talks about “the popular public schools” that parents move for. He discusses the idea that popular doesn’t necessarily mean good. While …
Image by Firesign via Flickr So, I was just watching some TV with my 6 month old son while my wife catches a nap, and I saw this ad for Kaplan: I have to say, except for the fact that Kaplan is basically saying that they have a monopoly on …